Someone in Africa Loves You

By Alexander Nderitu

The tall blonde girl didn’t come to East Africa on safari, She was an Oxford student majoring in History And wanted to see the sites involved in slavery And the relics of Arab-Portuguese rivalry. I first spied her walking alone by the swaying sea And something about her just jumped up and bit me. I asked her her name and she said, “Suzanne…with an ‘e’.”